ALPINIST 49

The latest roundup of climbing / mountaineering information and articles from
around the globe.

Features Unclimbed Nearly twelve years after Alpinist’s first «Unclimbed»
feature, Kelly Cordes reminds readers that there are still plenty of vertical
mysteries. Damien Gildea, Kyle Dempster, Tamostu Nakamura, Mayan Smith-Gobat,
Harish Kapadia, Pat Deavoll and Clint Helander share a few examples. Badal For
almost thirty years, Katsutaka Yokoyama has chased…

Austrian climber Hermann Buhl remains one of the most iconic figures in
mountaineering literature. His daughter, Kriemhild, shares her experiences of
what it was like to grow up «in the shadow of his myth.»Matt Samet recalls
his first solo climb— and near-brush with death.

Crazy Wisdom: The April 2014 avalanche brought worldwide attention to the
struggles of Sherpa guides on Everest. Yet the deaths of Rai and Tamang low-
altitude porters have remained largely invisible in the media. Ed Douglas
travels to Nepal to seek the realities behind decades of mountaineering myths.